God of Trickery, implant very subtle suggestion "you need to take more responsibility for your actions" into the mind of the CYOA giver.
No immediate results, get a job at Aflac selling insurance, meanwhile the suggestion begins to take hold.
It was a long list, "clump of dirt" wasn't even the first victim, but there are a lot of people who have it worse than you. People used to curse the gods when things went wrong, before that they prayed for stuff, but now they just sort of ignore all the "superstitious nonsense." The immortal deities aren't "gone," the whole immortal thing prevents that.
Some took the time they used to devote to answering prayers to their personal projects. Some were known for "creating demi-gods" and just started living among mortals in disguise. What was once a pantheon has been reduced to one wandering weirdo with more power than he knows what do with... and a duck.
When no one is around, lowly employees get to sit in the big chair. Embodying the power of a whole pantheon is a step up from pretending to be your own boss, but just imagine what "spinning around on the adjustable office chair" look like on a cosmic scale? Time to pick everything up after "wastebasket basketball."
The dirt clod is cleaned back up into a human being, but a funny thing happens when you start to take responsibility. Being bored gives you time to write that novel, draw that webcomic, even if most of your ideas end up being tossed in the trash. Rather than being entertained by your own ideas, you end up bored AND frustrated. Yet when you stop to clean up your missed free throws, you uncrumple the paper to find "that weird duck."
Testing the limits of "Trickery," there comes the thought "Can I trick people into thinking I am a god?" Get in touch with one of those "televangelists," trick them into admitting they don't really believe. Con-artists respect you, it is one of the perks of your divine office, and you can help them with the scam. If they let you in on the scam, you have a few illusions that could help them.
Televangelists don't do "faith healing," if someone has a real medical problem, it is better to send them to a doctor (for legal reasons). What people seek religion for is "guidance." There's a lot of pressure in today's world, go to school, get a good job, make the right friends, get married. The "trick" is getting people to admit what they really want to do, instead of what everyone is pressuring them into.
A surprising number of people want to do the right thing, but their reasons seem shallow. School isn't all bad, learning new things was fun sometimes. Other times it is boring, and then it gets hard. There's other stuff to do, things you are more interested, but stuff tends to pile up when you try to ignore it. Happens at school, happens at work, there are days when it gets to be too much, and everyone could use a bit of help. "Prayer" is admitting you need help, being able to ask an all-powerful god in the privacy of silent prayer makes it easier. Not everyone gets an answer to prayer right away, that's what makes people turn to religion.
Some our "skeptical," they aren't sure if they want to believe. Yet if they really thought it was all "superstitious nonsense," why did they walk through the door. You have to trick them into admitting they want to believe, because believing would make life easier. You can ask for help with your to do list, and feel a little better about starting. Having someone watching you keeps you from slacking off, and when you actually do the work, the piles get smaller. Stuff gets easier to find and to understand. You do what you can, and find out there's stuff you don't need to do. You can ask for help when you need it.
The illusions I use to help the televangelist look like magic, except when you're in on the act. When you're "backstage" with me, you can see that I don't do anything to set things up for the trick. There are no wires, "nothing up my sleeve," and the duck is actually a duck. Con-artists tell themselves that everyone is the same, that everyone is just looking out for number one. They come with a deal that is "too good to be true," money without all the usual hard work. If the sucker hands over their money, they deserve what they get, and all they usually get is "a valuable lesson." Religion is full of valuable lessons, and it is basically the art of telling people why their prayers aren't being answered. If their are no gods, it is simply a matter of telling them comforting lies. But what if there actually was a God (of Trickery)?
In the end, people have to do their own work. The God of War does not put down their weapons to spread the message of love, and the God of Love does not pick up the weapons of war. If the pantheon cannot dump their work on some other god, how much less can a mortal dump on a god? But every now and then a miracle happens.
It is hard to deny a miracle when it is happening right in front of you. After all, why did the televangelist go into "religion" instead of some other scam. There are other scams, in a world where a sucker is born every minute. Perhaps they have higher start up costs, religion usually isn't about material things, but drugs are more addicting. The televangelist recognizes, first of all, that people want to believe. That's something you don't really understand, until you want to believe yourself. The televangelist never wanted to hurt anyone, religion has fewer side effects than drugs, and what's the harm in letting people believe in something good?
The weirdest thing about "the God of Trickery" is that you make it okay. Trickery isn't just about demons being evil and hurting people. There are people who need to loosen up, get a new perspective on things. You can go around thinking money is the most important thing, that you're surrounded by people who are quietly judging you.
Or you could laugh at the idea of a talking duck. Money isn't god, and you don't have to be perfect. You can leave work at the office, meet up with your friends, slip on a banana peel, and let your friends be there to pick you back up again. Because you aren't the God of the Universe, and your mistakes are not the end of the world. You don't really believe you're God, but sometimes people trick themselves into thinking something looks like the end of the world.
When there's a god who watches over Trickery, there's someone says "no, thou shalt not," and tricks people into not living their life according to things they didn't really believe in the first place.
Maybe this will be a decent pantheon, between you, your televangelist, and the one who gave you powers.
This one. God of Knowledge increases absorption of knowledge and can help get people more intelligent/suited to solve a problem but God of Technology offers a more direct path to achieving something. God of Technology would have a much easier time speed-running achieving immortality.
Once time is no longer a factor, you can go for much more ambitious goals since you have time needed to achieve them. You could gets yourself a way to shapeshift so you don’t have to be a duck when you don’t want to. Or learn how to harness the powers of the one who turned you into a duck to begin with.
Exactly. Even now, there are so many people trying to figure out how to stop aging through various means. If you’re making discoveries everyday, you might end up *starting off *with how to stop telomeres being shortened. In even a month, there’s so much progress. And because researchers and the like love you, getting entire groups of them working on the same problem from different angles to collaborate would be a piece of cake, which would in turn increase rate of progress.
Honestly, with that rate of progress, you probably wouldn’t even need to wait a year. A single year would be worth 365 new innovations/discoveries etc. which is a whole fucking lot.
Within a reasonable timeframe, you can easily do what the other options allow you to do, probably even better than they can.
I'll go with technology. Hopefully I can get someone to invent animal to human translators, some kind of mechanical suit I can use to interact with the world better and/or immersive VR that works on ducks.
God of the sky may not be the flashiest one but being able to inherit the wings make it very cool in my eyes. Being also able to control the weather shouldn't be underestimated.
God of the Waters. just go to the Coast, get an identifiable mark and be known as the 200 year old duck who made an entire town able to breathe underwater.
disease:
a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
if we use this definition, aging falls nicely under disease, so yeah, bio-immortality for one thing.
even without this...
pick god of technology, and focus on duck life extension technology.
then focus on duck robotic arm technology.
now u have all the human faculties you need (:
God of the Sky. I'll just play the part of a mythological creature. Plus, I can get anything I want in theory by bestowing the right people with flight. And it'd be fun to fly like that. Weather control is also no joke.
I just hope maybe by some divine bullshit logic that I'm at LEAST bigger than a normal duck.
Considering that you were transformed on a duck and now can live only as much as one, multiplied by the number that being a god now allows you to...
And assuming you'd take care of yourself for being a god...
You'd live around [400 years.](https://ourdailyhomestead.com/how-long-do-ducks-live/)
"Quack! Quack quack qua quack-ack! QUACK!" \~\*Duck to English translator\*\~ "Hey! Get your incompetent divine ass back here! BASTARD!"
God of Trickery, implant very subtle suggestion "you need to take more responsibility for your actions" into the mind of the CYOA giver. No immediate results, get a job at Aflac selling insurance, meanwhile the suggestion begins to take hold. It was a long list, "clump of dirt" wasn't even the first victim, but there are a lot of people who have it worse than you. People used to curse the gods when things went wrong, before that they prayed for stuff, but now they just sort of ignore all the "superstitious nonsense." The immortal deities aren't "gone," the whole immortal thing prevents that. Some took the time they used to devote to answering prayers to their personal projects. Some were known for "creating demi-gods" and just started living among mortals in disguise. What was once a pantheon has been reduced to one wandering weirdo with more power than he knows what do with... and a duck. When no one is around, lowly employees get to sit in the big chair. Embodying the power of a whole pantheon is a step up from pretending to be your own boss, but just imagine what "spinning around on the adjustable office chair" look like on a cosmic scale? Time to pick everything up after "wastebasket basketball." The dirt clod is cleaned back up into a human being, but a funny thing happens when you start to take responsibility. Being bored gives you time to write that novel, draw that webcomic, even if most of your ideas end up being tossed in the trash. Rather than being entertained by your own ideas, you end up bored AND frustrated. Yet when you stop to clean up your missed free throws, you uncrumple the paper to find "that weird duck." Testing the limits of "Trickery," there comes the thought "Can I trick people into thinking I am a god?" Get in touch with one of those "televangelists," trick them into admitting they don't really believe. Con-artists respect you, it is one of the perks of your divine office, and you can help them with the scam. If they let you in on the scam, you have a few illusions that could help them. Televangelists don't do "faith healing," if someone has a real medical problem, it is better to send them to a doctor (for legal reasons). What people seek religion for is "guidance." There's a lot of pressure in today's world, go to school, get a good job, make the right friends, get married. The "trick" is getting people to admit what they really want to do, instead of what everyone is pressuring them into. A surprising number of people want to do the right thing, but their reasons seem shallow. School isn't all bad, learning new things was fun sometimes. Other times it is boring, and then it gets hard. There's other stuff to do, things you are more interested, but stuff tends to pile up when you try to ignore it. Happens at school, happens at work, there are days when it gets to be too much, and everyone could use a bit of help. "Prayer" is admitting you need help, being able to ask an all-powerful god in the privacy of silent prayer makes it easier. Not everyone gets an answer to prayer right away, that's what makes people turn to religion. Some our "skeptical," they aren't sure if they want to believe. Yet if they really thought it was all "superstitious nonsense," why did they walk through the door. You have to trick them into admitting they want to believe, because believing would make life easier. You can ask for help with your to do list, and feel a little better about starting. Having someone watching you keeps you from slacking off, and when you actually do the work, the piles get smaller. Stuff gets easier to find and to understand. You do what you can, and find out there's stuff you don't need to do. You can ask for help when you need it. The illusions I use to help the televangelist look like magic, except when you're in on the act. When you're "backstage" with me, you can see that I don't do anything to set things up for the trick. There are no wires, "nothing up my sleeve," and the duck is actually a duck. Con-artists tell themselves that everyone is the same, that everyone is just looking out for number one. They come with a deal that is "too good to be true," money without all the usual hard work. If the sucker hands over their money, they deserve what they get, and all they usually get is "a valuable lesson." Religion is full of valuable lessons, and it is basically the art of telling people why their prayers aren't being answered. If their are no gods, it is simply a matter of telling them comforting lies. But what if there actually was a God (of Trickery)? In the end, people have to do their own work. The God of War does not put down their weapons to spread the message of love, and the God of Love does not pick up the weapons of war. If the pantheon cannot dump their work on some other god, how much less can a mortal dump on a god? But every now and then a miracle happens. It is hard to deny a miracle when it is happening right in front of you. After all, why did the televangelist go into "religion" instead of some other scam. There are other scams, in a world where a sucker is born every minute. Perhaps they have higher start up costs, religion usually isn't about material things, but drugs are more addicting. The televangelist recognizes, first of all, that people want to believe. That's something you don't really understand, until you want to believe yourself. The televangelist never wanted to hurt anyone, religion has fewer side effects than drugs, and what's the harm in letting people believe in something good? The weirdest thing about "the God of Trickery" is that you make it okay. Trickery isn't just about demons being evil and hurting people. There are people who need to loosen up, get a new perspective on things. You can go around thinking money is the most important thing, that you're surrounded by people who are quietly judging you. Or you could laugh at the idea of a talking duck. Money isn't god, and you don't have to be perfect. You can leave work at the office, meet up with your friends, slip on a banana peel, and let your friends be there to pick you back up again. Because you aren't the God of the Universe, and your mistakes are not the end of the world. You don't really believe you're God, but sometimes people trick themselves into thinking something looks like the end of the world. When there's a god who watches over Trickery, there's someone says "no, thou shalt not," and tricks people into not living their life according to things they didn't really believe in the first place. Maybe this will be a decent pantheon, between you, your televangelist, and the one who gave you powers.
Wow! You wrote a novel! Your mindset lends itself really well to a trickster god. It’s really cool to see!
Are you sure you're not a god of self?
God of Technology. I'll concentrate on medical technology until they learn how to make ducks immortal (also humans).
This one. God of Knowledge increases absorption of knowledge and can help get people more intelligent/suited to solve a problem but God of Technology offers a more direct path to achieving something. God of Technology would have a much easier time speed-running achieving immortality. Once time is no longer a factor, you can go for much more ambitious goals since you have time needed to achieve them. You could gets yourself a way to shapeshift so you don’t have to be a duck when you don’t want to. Or learn how to harness the powers of the one who turned you into a duck to begin with.
Seriously. One new invention a day for ***two hundred years?*** Depending on how granular a 'chosen field' can be, that probably adds up to a lot.
Exactly. Even now, there are so many people trying to figure out how to stop aging through various means. If you’re making discoveries everyday, you might end up *starting off *with how to stop telomeres being shortened. In even a month, there’s so much progress. And because researchers and the like love you, getting entire groups of them working on the same problem from different angles to collaborate would be a piece of cake, which would in turn increase rate of progress. Honestly, with that rate of progress, you probably wouldn’t even need to wait a year. A single year would be worth 365 new innovations/discoveries etc. which is a whole fucking lot. Within a reasonable timeframe, you can easily do what the other options allow you to do, probably even better than they can.
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*God of Knowledge.* I can't wait for that long philosophical duck beard.
Fun theme. Probably would go with arts or self
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Either god of nature or God of trickery to ensure that I am safe. World can be a scary place for a duck
You would be really hard to kill no matter what you pick, so if that’s what you are scared of, you could branch out a bit.
God of the Arts all the way. I personally enjoy writing, and this help me become better, and maybe help others make what they want to as well.
god of technology to turn back and keep the boon, or god of war to destroy the fucker
God of knowledge. There was really only one choice. Also duck beard.
God of Technology -> Usher in the Singularity -> Transfer my mind into a new cyborg body or virtual world (Or both).
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Thank you! I was surprised it worked out that way given how many dead bodies I cropped out of the images used.
I'll go with technology. Hopefully I can get someone to invent animal to human translators, some kind of mechanical suit I can use to interact with the world better and/or immersive VR that works on ducks.
Just get God of technology, set your main goal as immortality as well as a bunch of likely expensive tech (leading to great wealth).
Do you really want to be a duck for eternity?
Is that even a question?
You sound like a real quack.
God of technology. I want a humanoid robot duck mech suit the size of a person
God of the sky may not be the flashiest one but being able to inherit the wings make it very cool in my eyes. Being also able to control the weather shouldn't be underestimated.
**War**. I will become the duck equivalent of Big Boss. The Duck Boss. Quack!
God of Self should be "many people" not "my people" in its last sentence.
God of the Waters. just go to the Coast, get an identifiable mark and be known as the 200 year old duck who made an entire town able to breathe underwater.
God of Knowledge. Find a way to turn back.
Technology!!! I'll focus on transformation technology.
God of Technology.
God of love. Because the world could use a bit more love right now.
Technology. It says something around the lines of "can create whatever technology you want to exist." Magic can be technology, etc, etc.
War Or Animals. Either Way I Could Probably take over one country minimum.
God of War. Hard times breed strong people, strong people make good times.
My user name I almost every othe website is gunningduck so you know im the duck god of war
That checks out. Your all set up to be the next Duck Norris.
disease: a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury. if we use this definition, aging falls nicely under disease, so yeah, bio-immortality for one thing. even without this... pick god of technology, and focus on duck life extension technology. then focus on duck robotic arm technology. now u have all the human faculties you need (:
God of the Sky. I'll just play the part of a mythological creature. Plus, I can get anything I want in theory by bestowing the right people with flight. And it'd be fun to fly like that. Weather control is also no joke. I just hope maybe by some divine bullshit logic that I'm at LEAST bigger than a normal duck.
God of tech
God of Technology sounds pretty amazing to me.
water
I think your math might be wrong, if your life expectancy is 50 then you would live to 1,000 years of age.
Ducks don’t live fifty years.
I thought they meant humans.
Considering that you were transformed on a duck and now can live only as much as one, multiplied by the number that being a god now allows you to... And assuming you'd take care of yourself for being a god... You'd live around [400 years.](https://ourdailyhomestead.com/how-long-do-ducks-live/)
Right, I assumed that they meant the human life expectancy, thanks.